1654 in England

Events from the year 1654 in The Protectorate.

Incumbents

5 April - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch War, and the Dutch agree to observe the Navigation Acts.^[1]
11 April - England signs a treaty of commerce with Sweden.^[1]
12 April - Oliver Cromwell creates a union between England and Scotland, with Scottish representation in the Parliament of England.^[1]
August - The 'Western Design'; an expedition to the Caribbean to counter Spanish commercial interests.^[2]
3 September - First Protectorate Parliament assembles.^[1]

Beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War which lasted until after the Restoration in 1660.
Commission of Triers fills empty Anglican benefices with Puritan ministers.^[2]

8 February - John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, (born 1601)
3 June - Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel, (born 1585)
28 June - John Southworth, martyr (born 1592)
July - Thomas Gataker, clergy (born 1574)
10 July - Peter Vowell, Royalist conspirator (year of birth unknown)
30 November
- William Habington, poet (born 1605)
- John Selden, jurist (born 1584)
Sir William Brockman, military leader and politician (born 1595)
Edmund Chilmead, writer (born 1610)
Nicholas Culpeper, astrologer (born 1616)
Roger Dodsworth, antiquary (born 1585)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 266. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 185–186. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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